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David Malouf, author of An Open Book, Johnno, Earth Hour, Revolving Days: Selected Poems, and Typewriter Music
Photo by Conrad Del Villar

David Malouf

Biography

David Malouf was born in Brisbane in 1934. Since ‘Interiors’ in Four Poets, 1962, he has published poetry, novels and short stories, essays, opera librettos and a play, and has been widely translated. In 2000 he was the sixteenth Neustadt Laureate.